CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Mokashi, Shachi |
|---|---|
| Title | Uncertain Futures: Tracing the Conceptualisations of Uncertainty and the Imaginaries of Futures in the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change |
| Summary | By tracing the conceptualisation of uncertainty in the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), this thesis explores the imaginaries of the future constructed by the scenario-planning methodology. In its assessments, I argue that the IPCC produces spaces where technical and socioeconomic uncertainty is operationalized to construct interpretations of prescriptive futures wherein it is possible to retain contemporary economic relations and effectively mitigate climatic changes. Finally, I explore the temporal displacement that scenario-construction can produce; that is, the imaginaries of the future seek to displace us temporally from the point that effective, political action must be taken to one where it is being taken. I argue that engaging with dominant knowledge producing institutions, like the IPCC, is a necessary step in understanding how prescriptions are embedded in climate research; I seek to excavate these prescriptions and understand how contemporary economic relations are being inscribed in the scientific knowledge production of climate change. I problematise the political and economic relations that underscore the scientific knowledge production; to ask why it is, that: “the more knowledge there is of the consequences, the more fossil fuels are burnt”? |
| Supervisor | Fabiani, Jean-Louis; Sopranzetti, Claudio |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/mokashi_shachi.pdf |
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